13 May, 2021 | Cathy Casey, Featured Post, Local Government, News
Kate Sheppard would be horrified to learn that women in New Zealand – the country that first gave women the vote – are still grossly underrepresented in the ranks of elected councillors in local government and very few hold leadership roles.
13 May, 2021 | Albert-Eden Local Board, Featured Post, News, Waitemata Local Board
The City Vision-led Albert-Eden Local Board, Waitematā Local Board and Ward Councillors are pleased that Auckland Transport has relented and agreed to our request to provide for a second (western) entrance to the new Maungawhau rail station. While the new station,...
11 September, 2020 | Auckland District Health Board, Featured Post, News
Very unfortunate and troubling though it has been for all concerned, in retrospect the Auckland outbreak has been a salutary experience from which everyone can learn something. Our first wave seemed to involve – for the most part – youngish and healthy...
8 July, 2020 | Auckland District Health Board, Featured Post, News
The Health and Disability System Review (known as the Simpson Report after the chair, Heather Simpson) was recently published. It draws substantially on submissions from the sector and has been a couple of the years in the making. It is the most substantial review of...
6 June, 2020 | Featured Post, News
Have your say on Auckland Council’s Emergency Budget 2020/2021 (feedback form) Auckland Council has produced an Emergency Budget to address the $525m shortfall in revenue due to COVID-19 and in so doing has to make some tough decisions about where to find...
3 February, 2020 | Featured Post, Policy, Waitemata Local Board
NZ has one of the developed world’s lowest waste minimisation levies – $10 per tonne to landfill. MBIE plan to raise that to $50 but an independent study recommends a levy of $140 per tonne!
12 November, 2019 | Featured Post, News
Some things can be revelatory in their simplicity. Take, for example, the little piece of paper laying between my cup of tea and lolly wrapper at the hair salon a mere eight days since I was re-elected as Albert-Eden-Puketāpapa ward councillor. “Kind is the new cool,”...
6 November, 2019 | Featured Post, News
The serious allegations of electoral irregularities and gerrymandering made by Mike Lee (in Gulf News and Ponsonby News) to explain his defeat cannot go unanswered. His arguments set out to undermine a number of important democratic principles. Under the Local...
3 November, 2019 | Featured Post, News
A positive Local Elections 2019 campaign has resulted in a strong result for City Vision. 37 candidates stood across Waitematā and Gulf ward, Albert- Eden-Puketāpapa ward, Maungakiekie subdivision, Auckland DHB and Portage Licensing Trust (ward 1). The final result,...
8 October, 2019 | Featured Post, News
Media Release embargoed until 10am 8 October 2019 Subject: Local Elections 2019 Careful financial management claim vindicated by Advertising Standards Authority decision A bogus budget claim that the City Vision-led Waitematā Local Board, representing central...
